Security certificate

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    brotheraskari · Member ·

    When I am posting on my site, I get a warning that says ” there is a problem with the security certificate.”
    Then, the instruction says, ” Close out this website.” How can I resolve the problem?”

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    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi there,

    That warning pops up when the URL you’re using begins with https:// instead of http:// (without the “s”). You should be sure to use this URL for your site: http://brotheraskari.me/

    When you connect to your WordPress.com dashboard over an HTTPS connection, we use an SSL certificate to encrypt your connection. However, we don’t support HTTPS connections for blogs with mapped domains. SSL certificates need to be signed to a specific domain, and we can’t provide certificates for every mapped domain, so our certificate is signed for WordPress.com.

    When you connect to your domain via HTTPS but your security software sees a certificate signed to http://wordpress.com/ it’s alerting you that WordPress.com may be intercepting your connection. That’s actually fine, since your site is hosted by WordPress.com, but your browser doesn’t know that — so it sends that alert.

    You can read more about this and how to disable that warning in your browser here: HTTPS

    Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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